Building a Healthy Church: God's Saving Grace, Titus 2:11-15

Today we are getting back into our Titus study after a couple weeks with our missionaries.
This passage is all about God’s grace and the hope Christ-followers have because of that grace. This passage begins with the word “for.” This word connects our passage with the last several passages. In our last three sermons, we have seen God’s serious qualifications for church leadership, God’s serious call to silence false teachers within the church, and God’s serious expectations for Christians.
What Paul says in these verses is the reason for such seriousness.
God’s church is not just a club, or a social group. It is a blood-bought possession of Jesus Christ that has the hope (the only hope) of salvation and eternal life.
There is salvation in NO other name than Jesus Christ, but there IS salvation in Jesus’ name.
This is the blessed hope of the Gospel. This is what motivates our serious view of church and Christian living. This singular hope in Jesus Christ alone is what motivates us to react to false teaching.
Christian seriousness is the proper response to God’s saving grace. Certainly, we can enjoy God’s gifts of life and family, but nothing in the Christian life should be frivolous or thoughtless. God’s saving grace is serious business and should be treated like it.
As we unpack our passage, we will see just what God’s grace does.